Angus Chen

1 week ago | statnews.com | Angus Chen

For a decade and a half, Americans have been guaranteed that no matter their health insurer, certain preventive care like cancer screenings are free of charge. That’s because an Affordable Care Act provision has required insurers to fully cover services given an A or B recommendation by an expert task force. That may soon change. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to this statute in the case of Kennedy v. Braidwood Management.

1 month ago | statnews.com | Angus Chen

Mark Vieth was stunned when he saw the numbers. Vieth coordinates the Defense Health Research Consortium, which advocates for a Pentagon program that has long received about $1.5 billion a year in federal funds for medical research — nearly half of which typically goes toward cancer. In the funding bill passed this month, the Republican-led Congress slashed the program’s budget by 57%. “We originally thought that’d be applied proportionally to all programs,” said Vieth.

1 month ago | statnews.com | Jonathan Wosen |Megan Molteni |Jason Mast |Angus Chen |Lev Facher |Anil Oza

With the National Institutes of Health facing deep workforce cuts and little information from agency leadership about how those cuts will be made, scientists, administrators, and other employees at the nation’s premier funder of biomedical research were left reeling, afraid and confused on Friday. “Nobody feels like their job is safe. Everyone is on edge,” said Kim Hasenkrug, an NIH scientist emeritus with knowledge of ongoing activities at Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

1 month ago | statnews.com | Angus Chen

The funding was supposed to last for at least several more months, said Jace Flatt, an associate professor of health and behavioral sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But on Friday, he and several other scientists studying LGBTQ+ health received a letter from the National Institutes of Health informing them that some existing, ongoing grants from the federal government were terminated, effective immediately.

2 months ago | statnews.com | Megan Molteni |Usha Lee McFarling |Angus Chen

Acceptances for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are being cut back at some universities and medical centers across the country as many grapple with the potential impact of the Trump administration’s order to cut National Institutes of Health research funding. The cuts come even as the proposed reductions to funding for overhead expenses, set to start Feb.10, were temporarily halted last week by a federal judge, at least until a court hearing this Friday.